Performance?

Not sure if this is the appropriate place:

I’m getting about 20fps in the unreal editor (sometimes dips to the single digits prompting the editor to complain), how can I start troubleshooting?

specs:

i7 7820HK
Gtx 1080
32GB ram

This is a laptop, how can I be sure the editor isn’t using the intel chipset? I have already added the profile to nvidia, is there a way to check whats being used?